[ˈaktrɪs], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a woman whose profession is acting on stage, in films, or on television
(e.g: she is one of the great actresses of her generation)


Phrases:
- as the actress said to the bishop

Origin:
late 16th century (in sense ‘woman who performs an action’): from actor + -ess. The main current sense is first recorded in the early 17th century